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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. -- Elie Wiesel
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity. -- Leo Tolstoy
I have to pick myself up every day and say, 'The show must go on,' meaning life as I know it must go on, whatever the obstacle is, I know I can handle it, and I can get through it. -- Jennie Garth
The meaning of life is life. -- Alan Alda
Purpose is what gives life a meaning. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. -- Novalis
I was looking for what the meaning of life was. -- Shakti Gawain
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself. -- Erich Fromm
Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder. -- Richard Bach
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. -- Charlie Chaplin
You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it. -- Robert Fulghum
The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love. -- Julie Benz
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human. -- Viktor E. Frankl
What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life. -- Adrian Grenier
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning. -- Henry Miller
Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. -- Christopher Paolini
There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers. -- Erich Fromm
Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all. -- Helmut Walcha
Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope. -- Rick Warren
It's not like during your normal day, anyone says, 'How do having meaning in your life? How do you make meaning in your life?' -- Bruce Eric Kaplan
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning. -- Joseph Campbell
Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is. -- Richard Flanagan
Having killed God, the atheist is left with no reason for being, no morality to espouse, no meaning to life, and no hope beyond the grave. -- Ravi Zacharias
A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee. -- Libba Bray
There is only one thing that remains to us, that cannot be taken away: to act with courage and dignity and to stick to the ideals that have given meaning to life. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person. -- Anais Nin
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Some people seek meaning in life through personal gain, through personal relationship, or through personal experiences. However, it seems to me that being blessed with the intellect to divine the ultimate secrets of nature gives meaning enough to life. -- Michio Kaku
And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time. -- Donald Miller
Deepen you knowledge of Jesus which ends loneliness, overcomes sadness and uncertainty, gives real meaning to life, curbs passions, exalts ideals, expands energies in charity, brings light into decisive choices. Let Christ be for you the Way, the Truth, and the Life. -- Pope John Paul II
I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love and be loved. She can be married, have children, be a mother. Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life. -- Leila Khaled
The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds. -- Albert Camus
Minks are mean little critters. Vicous, horrible little animals who eat their own. They're not beavers. I wouldn't wear beavers. I'd rather have a mink coat made of mean little critters that are killed in a very nice way and treated nicely for their short, mean lives so that I could keep warm. -- Valerie Perrine
When we align our thoughts, emotions, and actions with the highest part of ourselves, we are filled with enthusiasm, purpose and meaning. Life is rich and full. We have no thoughts of bitterness. We have no memory of fear. We are joyously and intimately engaged with our world. This is the experience of authentic power -- Gary Zukav
The shaman no longer looks for meaning in life, but brings meaning to every situation. The shaman stops looking for truth and instead brings truth to every encounter. You don t look for the right partner, you become the right partner. And then the right partner finds you. It s a very active practice focused on healing. -- Alberto Villoldo
We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added new conquests to our domain in that incessant contest with nature which means life. But we are decadent heirs if we cannot use the instruments that the ages have put into our hands. The acquisition of these, in the largest scope, is education. -- Arthur Lynch
Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill whatever talents we are born with. However blessed we are by fate with different abilities and strengths, we should try to develop them to the fullest, rather than allow them to atrophy and decay. ... Second, we should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it. -- Michio Kaku
Love, life, meaning...over. -- Stephenie Meyer
Life is existence with meaning -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Life without pain has no meaning. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The meaning of life is happiness. -- Dalai Lama
Purpose is what gives life meaning. -- Charles Henry Parkhurst
Love gives life purpose and meaning. -- Joyce Meyer
Give life meaning through your commitments. -- Paul C. Reinert
The meaning of life is to see. -- Huineng
Life's meaning heavily benefits from lifelong bonds. -- Robert J. Shiller
We are the custodians of life's meaning. -- Carl Sagan
What's the meaning of life? Other people. -- John Green
Life without purpose, is time without meaning. -- Kiley Callaway
Only through communication can human life hold meaning. -- Paulo Freire
"¦the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life. -- Roland Barthes
Life without dreaming is a life without meaning. -- Wale
Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life. -- Rick Warren
Is death that which gives meaning to life? -- Donald Barthelme
Love life more than the meaning of it? -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is always a double meaning in life... -- Nadeem v Abdu
My life carries its own meaning in itself. -- Albert Schweitzer
Poke gave him life. Ender gave it meaning. -- Orson Scott Card
The meaning of life is that it stops. -- Franz Kafka
Life takes on the meaning that you give it. -- Liz Murray
Resist doing things that have no meaning for life. -- Pablo Casals
Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning. -- Etty Hillesum
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Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Knowing life's purpose would invest everything one did with meaning. -- Kentetsu Takamori
Meaning arises from loving life, not from goals or narratives. -- Julio Olalla
The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.' -- Kedar Joshi
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. -- Joseph Campbell
Each life contains as much meaning as all of history. -- Catherine Chung
The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained. -- Kenneth Rexroth
It is up to you to give life a meaning. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
For me, the meaning of life is the next generation. -- Grace Paley
maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it -- David Mitchell
The meaning of life is to live a meaningful life. -- Bill Phillips
The meaning of life is to get meaning for life. -- Wayne Dyer
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life. -- Viktor E. Frankl
A room without books is like a life without meaning. -- Thomas Jefferson
God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning. -- J. I. Packer
Man's search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Faith gives you a certain structure and meaning to your life. -- Riffat Hassan
The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile. -- Tom Rath
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. -- Eric Hoffer
The meaning of your life comes through your obligations to others. -- Laura Schlessinger
Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life. -- Jack Canfield
Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it. -- George Carlin
A life of kindness is the primary meaning of divine worship. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
What can be greater to life than to understand its meaning. -- Kedar Joshi
Meaning equals emotion and emotion equals life. Choose consciously and wisely. -- Tony Robbins
Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion. -- Leon Kass
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived. -- Bruce Lee
Most people are looking for something to give their life meaning. -- Annette Bening
The meaning of life is found by diving deep, deep within. -- Vishnudevananda Saraswati
Life has meaning for anyone who takes an interest in it. -- Sidney Hook
What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful. -- Dalai Lama
Life's deepest meaning is not found in accomplishments , but in relationships -- Gary Chapman
The meaning of life is to create meaning for your life. -- Tucker Max
If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning -- Ruth Bernhard
If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning. -- Immanuel Kant
Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Always engage in the quest for life's meaning, which is inner peace. -- Longchenpa
Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life. -- Antoni Tapies
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. -- Michael Jackson
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. -- Stanley Kubrick
Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society. -- Albert Einstein
Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning -- Dick Van Dyke
The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Often in life those seemingly ordinary moments hold the most extraordinary meaning. -- Ken Poirot
In our factions, we find meaning, we find purpose, we find life. -- Veronica Roth
The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. -- Stephen Hawking
Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life. -- Auguste Rodin
We never ask the meaning of life when we are in love. -- Rajneesh
What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be. -- James Frey
The meaning of life is simply the meaning we give to it. -- Bryant McGill
To believe in God is to see that life has a meaning. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it. -- Tony Robbins
Creativity is at the root of love and meaning in this life. -- Laurence Overmire

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